Sentences with phrase «many rhetorical questions»

And the author follows with a layer - by - layer set of innuendos larded with arcane technical jargon and rhetorical questions to advance his deep and dark accusation.

That's a rhetorical question.

From the interrobang (a question mark and exclamation point superimposed, to ask a shocking question, proposed in 1962) to the percontation point (a backward question mark, for rhetorical questions, suggested in 1580), new glyphs have arrived and departed.

is anything but a rhetorical question at many a black church; it's a cultural reality.

These are rhetorical questions.

This was something of a rhetorical question, since the company had already confirmed the return of the start menu, according to PC World.

It was a rhetorical question.

(Hint: that's a rhetorical question.)

For me, these are rhetorical questions written with a sense of sickening dread; others will doubtlessly repeat them in earnest and with angry, partisan vigour.

And the answer to that rhetorical question, of course, is that nonbank companies generally don't get bailed out when the whole thing blows up.

Asking a search marketer for his opinion on Google's Quality Score (QS) is pretty much a rhetorical question — we all dislike it.

A rhetorical question.

Don't bother to answer, that's a rhetorical question.

Tallulah... yeah, I know... it was a rhetorical question, as I know there is absolutely no proof whatsoever for the belief in any god.

His rhetorical question some time back about Mormonism only coming about about in the nineteenth century, some 1,800 years after the Ascension of our Lord is spot on!

After listing Charlemagne's previous conquests as evidence of his power, he introduces the main theme with a rhetorical question: «Under these conditions, was it not to be expected» that the king should add a more general title commensurate with his authority?

It is a rhetorical question of course since you have already indicated you think it originated in the Bronze Age.

Undoubtedly you sense that I ask that as a rhetorical question.

(That's a rhetorical question - no answer necessary).

This is not a rhetorical question.

These aren't necessarily rhetorical questions, but they are ones anyone putting together a protest sign for any event should be able to answer.

Perhaps more important than the answers to those rhetorical questions is the reality that we do see color.

Using a series of rhetorical questions, the prophet pushes aside the numbness that is our common defense against pain.

@Marice, is a rhetorical question placed a top an insult of a stranger somehow more «intelligent»?

It's here, in the sermon's second half, that we find what Dominican chronicler Miguel Ángel Medina called Montesino's «arch-iconic» declaration of universal human equality, those rhetorical questions heaped upon the colonists (and all future oppressors): «Are they not men?

Today's answer to the rhetorical question «Am I my brother's keeper?»

This heady stuff turns on Montesino's charged rhetorical question: «[These Indians], are they not men?»

(that was a rhetorical question, of course you are)

My rhetorical question (remember — the one you answered) was meant to guide you PAST the simple definition to grasping the concept being addressed — the claim of incompatibility after a commitment.

Jesus asks the rhetorical question, «Were they worse sinners than all the rest?»

Such rhetorical questions answer themselves.

(also a rhetorical question)

• I apologize for the snide Catholic triumphalism of that rhetorical question — or at least half - apologize.

The answers to these rhetorical questions are of course that Jesus IS who he said He is and that these intelligent men that could read and write believed it so passionately that they were willing to die for it.

GSA, are you frontiersman or are are you a waste of space???? (That is a rhetorical question, BTW, only your ACTIONS determine which you are...)

I'm not sure that's correct considering what the apostle writes in the first seven verses, especially the rhetorical question, «Is the law sin?»

Often this tension was felt to have been so painful that one or another heretic sought to suppress either the Hebrew or the Hellenic element, as with the efforts of the second «century Marcion to get the Church to excise the Old Testament from the Christian Bible, or, from the opposite side, the sneering rhetorical question from the puritanical pen of the early «third «century Tertullian, «What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?»

I've asked this rhetorical question already, but I think it bears repeating: When you tell children that god / Jesus loves them, do you also tell them that after they grow up they will go to hell if they do not worship this christian god?

At a New Mexico rally, when McCain asked the rhetorical question — «Who is the real Barack Obama?»

I'm not trying to be hateful, nor am I asking a simple rhetorical question, but how do those who do not believe in God explain existence?

As justification for this assessment the Pope puts the rhetorical question: Can God, who is ultimate justice, tolerate terrible crimes and let them go unpunished?

So when Jesus says that we must be born of Water and Spirit, and if you believe and are baptized you will be saved, I agree with you that in a strict sense God does the saving and we need only immerse (baptize) ourselves in the grace he offers us, I believe that the statement Jesus made about marriage to be applicable, «Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate» and echo Peter's rhetorical question, «Can anyone keep these people from being baptized with water?

that the canonical ones begin with the rhetorical question, «Which of you...?»

We conclude this first half of our discussion with a rhetorical question.

This is a negative rhetorical question in the Greek which means that the implied answer is an emphatic no.

Rhetorical question: who is the WHO?

I took the phrase of the objector to be a negative rhetorical question, which is why I rephrased it as a I did.

Safranski summarizes Schleiermacher's «capacious» position with a rhetorical question («Was not Romantic poetry with its sense of the uncanny and the wondrous already directly religious?»).

Mine was simply a rhetorical question representing a personal belief (unprovable mathematically or otherwise by me, however) that we all intuit or make a leap of faith to some degree regardless of what view we take on the God issue.

Are rhetorical questions overused in blog posts?